By Ted AYALA The United States Postal Service (USPS) stunned many across the nation Feb. 6 when it announced it was ending delivery of first-class mail effective August of this year. The beleaguered agency has suffered in recent years from a society that has rendered the USPS on unsure footing in a culture increasingly reliant […]
By Tyler BIDDLE A resounding success! That was Jazz Night at the Café hosted by Crescenta Valley High School Instrumental Music on Saturday. Over 150 people turned up at the event, more than doubling last year’s attendance. The night was a true generational melting pot as both young and old faces livened up the dance […]
By Maddy PUMILIA Three candidates running for La Cañada City Council debated key issues such as crime, the 710 freeway extension and disaster preparation on Feb. 6. Running for city council are 24-year-old accountant Joe Layton, current councilmember and businessman David Spence and attorney and business owner Jon Curtis. The La Cañada Flintridge Coordinating Council […]
By Susan JAMES Buster Keaton once said that the first rule of comedy is to avoid making the comedian an object of pity. If that’s true, and Keaton did know something about making comedy, director Seth Gordon’s new movie, “Identity Thief” shatters this rule from the onset. The results aren’t pretty but more importantly they’re […]
By Charly SHELTON Sylvester Stallone is old. There is no way to argue it. His years of being a beefed-out muscle head actor have caught up with him and he is showing signs of age. That being said, he is still in better shape now than I am in my prime and he can still […]
Basketball team is fourth seed in playoffs and hopes to recapture feelings of last year’s exciting run. By Brandon HENSLEY Does God play favorites? The student section at Crescenta Valley High basketball games certainly thinks so. When this “chosen” player steps to the free-throw line, or jogs back on defense after hitting another near-impossible shot, […]
Getting Acquainted with a Fancy Phone Do you remember the days when – horrors! – you left your home and no one could contact you!? When I was a little girl, my dad had a friend who drove a red Cadillac and in it he had a phone. Like the car, the phone was red. […]
By Aimee YEGHIAYAN Falcon Rani Dimashki may not be the star shooter. He may not be the goalkeeper that blocks almost every shot, and he may not be the guy that wins the game. Ask anyone who follows the game though, and they will know who he is. “For a coach, he is the kind […]
“Unusual weather we’re having, ain’t it?” ~ Cowardly Lion (“Wizard of Oz,” 1939) as snow fell on the field of poppies outside The Emerald City Last weekend found us on the Central Coast. As we left home Friday, a second hail storm was pelting the foothills. Like many of our storms this season, it was […]
Girls’ soccer has lost its last two opening rounds in CIF, but will get shot at changing that today. By Brandon HENSLEY The Crescenta Valley girls’ soccer team will host a playoff game today at 3 p.m. at CV High School, and it will be what Coach Jorden Schulz hopes is the first step in […]